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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

·Indian American Ami Bera repeated history, entered US Congress: Sixty year old Dalip Singh Saund
created history to become the first Indian American to be elected to the US
Congress, California physician Ami Bera repeated the feat in a tight race.

·China’s new leader Xi Jinping took over as military chief: China’s new leader Xi Jinping formally took over as the country’s
Military Chief, presiding over the first meeting of the powerful 11-member
Military Commission, the highest body of the country’s defence command
structure.

·Pak teenager Malala chosen for bravery award: Pakistani girl Malala Yousufzai, who became the face of her country’s
struggle against the Taliban, has been awarded for her bravery and advocation
of education for girls in adverse conditions in Swat.

·Indian-American named Professor of the year: An Indian-American professor of mechanical engineering at the
University of South Florida has been named US Professor of the Year by an
influential think-tank.

·Palestine won historic United Nations General Assembly vote: Palestine overwhelmingly won a historic UN General Assembly vote which
will upgrade its status to non-member observer state at the world body, a
stinging diplomatic setback to the US and Israel which had strongly opposed the
bid. India was among the 138 nations in the 193-member body that voted in
favour of the resolution, which accords Palestine recognition as observer state
from its current entity status.

·Obamaappointed
blind Indian-American to key post: The Obama administration has appointed a
blind Indian-American to a key administrative post in an independent US agency
devoted for people with disabilities.

·Borut Pahor elected Slovenia’s President: A year after his government suffered a no-confidence vote making him
Slovenia’s least popular politician, former premier and ex-model Borut Pahor
returned to the top as the country’s next president.

·India among nations most impacted by terrorism: India, Pakistan and Afghanistan were among the nations most impacted by
terrorism in 2011, according to a new global study, which said the terror
strikes worldwide had increased fourfold since the start of the Iraq war in
2003.

·UAE Cabinet approved extradition agreement with India: The UAE Cabinet has approved an extradition agreement that the Gulf
nation had signed with India for facilitating the transfer of Indian convicts
to spend the remaining jail term in their home country.

·Conference at Doha (Qatar) on Climate Change and
Emission Issues: An overnight
diplomatic slugfest ended in a lojam at Doha(Qatar) as the US and EU refused to
even discuss how they shall provide the promised $ 100 billion to poor
countries to adapt to climate change and address emission reductions.The Doha
talks that began on November 26,2012 and went into an extra day of negotiations
on December 8,2012 have virtually failed to produce concrete plans or any
agreement on climate aid. The friction at the 18th Conference of the
Parties(COP18) centred around the issue that has plagued all previous attempts
at a global framework: the degree of financial responsibility rich countries
should assume for their part in global warming, and the mandate of developing
countries like India and China.

·New Legal pact to be in effect by 2020: The world agreed to the second phase of the Kyoto
Protocol, starting 2013 it agreed to a roadmap for binding world to a new
global legal compact on climate change by 2015 that would become operational by
2020.

·EU gets 2012 Nobel Prize for ‘Bringing Decades of
Peace’: The European Union received
the 2012 Nobel Prize at a ceremony in Oslo on December 10,2012 ,honoured by the
Norwegian Committee to bring decades of peace and democracy to Europe after the
horrors and division of two world wars. From just six countries who agreed to
pool their coal and steel production in the 1950s to 27 member States on
December 10,2012 and 28 once Crotia joins next year-the EU now stretches from
Portugal to Romania, Finland to Malta and sets rules that have a bearing on
more that 500 million people.

·Malala’s Father Made UN Education Adviser: The father of the child activist Malala Yousufzai
, who was shot by the Taliban for advocating girl’s right to education has been
appointed as special UN Adviser on Global Education. “Ziauddin Yousufzai, a
former teacher and head-master, will play a critical role in helping remove the
discrimination and barriers that prevent girls going to school”.

·Mahama Re-elected Ghanian President: Incumbent President John Dramani Mahama was
declared the winner of Ghana’s presidential election, winning 50.7% of the
votes polled.

·Opposition Party wins Parliamentary Elections in
Japan: The new Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe came out fighting after his sweeping election victory,
saying there can be no compromise on the sovereignty of island at the centre of
a dispute with China. Voters dumped Prime Minister Yoshiko Noda three years
after hid Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) promised a change from more than half
a century of almost unbroken Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule.

·Japan, China in Air Duel over Islands: China for the first time sent a marine
surveillance plane to join its warships to monitor the disputed islands with
Japan, forcing Tokyo to scramble F-15 fighter jets. The jets were mobilized
after a Chinese maritime aircraft ventured over the Senkaku islands, which
China calls the Diaoyus.

·North Korea Successfully Launches a Long-Range
Rocket: North Koreans danced in the
streets of their capital after the Pyongyang regime successfully launched a
long-range rocket, defying international warnings and taking a big step forward
in its quest to develop a nuclear-tipped missile.

·UNSC Condemns North Korea for Rocket Launch: The United Nations Security Council has condemned
North Korea for carrying out a launch and warned that it will consider
appropriate response to Pyongyang’s action. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
also deployed that rocket launch calling it clear violations of the council’s
instruments.

·South Korea Elects Park Geun-hye as its First Woman
President: South Korea elected its first Woman President
handing a slim but historic victory to conservative ruling party candidate Park
Geun-hye, daughter of the former military ruler.